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Discover recognised published standards that help data work together for users in health and adult social care within England.

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    API standards to provide a structured way to record dosage instructions between primary and secondary care settings.

    Status: Active

    Date added: 12 Oct 2023

  • Published standard

    This is one of a set of standards introduced by NHS England, initially on a voluntary basis, to enable national consistency of the flow of cost and activity information from providers to commissioners.

    Status: Active

    Date published: 8 Apr 2021

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    Monitored both the waiting times of people commencing treatment and those waiting for treatment.

    Status: Retired

    Date added: 10 May 2024

  • Published standard

    Defines the content, structure and management of electronic pathology reports between laboratories and General Practice.

    Status: Retired

    Date published: 7 Nov 2023

  • Published standard

    The eDischarge Summary Standard enables hospitals to safely transfer standardised clinical information which can be extracted directly into GP IT systems, when a patient is discharged from hospital care.

    Status: Active

    Date added: 12 Oct 2023

  • Published standard

    Use these API standards to share medication requests between Electronic Prescribing and Medicines Administration (ePMA) systems and hospital pharmacy or stock control systems.

    Status: Active

    Date added: 12 Oct 2023

  • Published standard

    Defines a method for data submission about suspected adverse drug reactions via the Yellow Card Scheme by populating the majority of the Yellow Card submission from the patient's electronic record.

    Status: Active

    Date published: 26 Oct 2017

  • Published standard

    Allows fit notes to be issued electronically by a range of healthcare professionals in secondary care.

    Status: Active

    Date published: 10 Nov 2022

  • Published standard

    Emergency Care Data Set (ECDS) is the Commissioning Data Set (CDS) Type for emergency care services.

    Status: Active

    Date published: 10 Jan 2023

  • Published standard

    Collects information relating to the costs of providing, maintaining and servicing the NHS estate of all NHS organisations in England providing NHS-funded secondary care.

    Status: Active

    Date published: 4 Apr 2022